# Freeze drying of local fruits, leaves and herbs for nutricional use · Food & Agriculture

# Freeze drying of local fruits, leaves and herbs for nutricional use

**Country:** Peru · Lima
**Category:** Food & Agriculture
**Impact Areas:** Circular Economy, Nature-Based
**Stage:** Sketches
**Team Size:** 3
**Website:** —

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## Elevator Pitch
Use the yield loss of fruits as avocado, lucuma, chirimoya for a freeze dried business. Use the leaves and the seeds

## Climate Problem
When your crops are exploited to serve exports growing double digits, you have to comply with certain weight, size and other requirements. At least 15 % of the fruit is rejected and thrown to the rivers or the ravines. Compost is not enough

## Solution
Offer the communities to start freeze drying their product to cover the windows were there is no production. Also create circular economy by using the freeze dried eaves and seeds for medicinal purpose

## Revenue Model
If we rent the

## Target Market
International market looking for tropical fruits all year

## Social Impact
Indigenous Peoples, Women

## Demand Evidence
We have customers from Asia asking for freeze dried fruits but we do not have local capacity. This requires many machines because the logistics in Perú provinces are not so
Developed. Especially on the Andes and Amazon rainforest

## Competitors
We have local producers that freeze dry strawberries
Pineapple and banana but not tropical fruits as avocados Lucuma or chirimoya

## Founder Expertise
We work with a community in Apurimac and we have worked in circular economy with avocados, creating oil, compost and using the seeds as coal

## External Support
If we teach  the communities to freeze drying their fruits they can rent the equipment and sell or export the fruits leaves and seed in the windows where there is no production

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*Source: ClimateLaunchpad 2026 Application · App ID: 9472*
*Ingested: 2026-05-25*